<p>The authors who contributed to Cynthia García Coll and Amy Kerivan Marks’s edited volume The Immigrant Paradox in Children and Adolescents: Is Becoming American a Developmental Risk? provide numerous reasons that we should be concerned and knowledgeable about the children of immigrants. Immigration to the United States has reached historic proportions in terms of sheer numbers of new arrivals as well as in the significant surge in the number of the immigrant children of those immigrants. Children of immigrants account for almost one fourth (24 percent) of all children in the United States and are leading the racial–ethnic transformation of the country, according to Hernandez, Denton, Macartney, and Blanchard (see Chapter 1).</p> <p>The effective integration of immigrants in educational, work, and community settings is essential for the well-being of this country’s future (Suárez-Orozco & Suárez-Orozco, 2001). This volume dovetails very nicely with the American Psychological Association’s Presidential Task Force Report on Immigration, scheduled to be reviewed by the Council of Representatives in February 2012.</p> <p>García Coll and Marks’s edited book focuses on variables that influence the educational, health, and behavioral outcomes among immigrant children and adolescents across a variety of nationality groups, ages, and immigrant generations. In particular,
How and Why Living in the United States Is a Risk to Development and Resilience of Immigrant Children and Adolescents
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<p>The authors who contributed to Cynthia García Coll and Amy Kerivan Marks’s edited volume The Immigrant Paradox in Children and Adolescents: Is Becoming American a Developmental Risk? provide numerous reasons that we should be concerned and knowledgeable about the children of immigrants. Immigration to the United States has reached historic proportions in terms of sheer numbers of new arrivals as well as in the significant surge in the number of the immigrant children of those immigrants. Children of immigrants account for almost one fourth (24 percent) of all children in the United States and are leading the racial–ethnic transformation of the country, according to Hernandez, Denton, Macartney, and Blanchard (see Chapter 1).</p> <p>The effective integration of immigrants in educational, work, and community settings is essential for the well-being of this country’s future (Suárez-Orozco & Suárez-Orozco, 2001). This volume dovetails very nicely with the American Psychological Association’s Presidential Task Force Report on Immigration, scheduled to be reviewed by the Council of Representatives in February 2012.</p> <p>García Coll and Marks’s edited book focuses on variables that influence the educational, health, and behavioral outcomes among immigrant children and adolescents across a variety of nationality groups, ages, and immigrant generations. In particular,Preview Only. This article cannot be rented because we do not currently have permission from the publisher.
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How and Why Living in the United States Is a Risk to Development and Resilience of Immigrant Children and Adolescents
Vasquez, Melba
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